Phoenician

The Ideal: Motril, 12-06-02
A location confirms the presence Phoenician in the proximities of the current Motril
Experts sustain that the establishment found in the Gorgoracha closes the hole among the remains found in Almuñécar and those of Adra
Manuel Pedreira Motril
FMinería: To the Phoenicians, for their commercial character, all the exploitable resources attracted them. The existence of mines in the low alpujarra also explains to the hallazgo.FRestos: In the location they have been remains of the age of the copper, Phoenicians and Roman. There are not pieces ibéricas.ApuntesLos Phoenicians they lived 2.700 years ago in the valley of the Guadalfeo. Investigators of the University of Granada have confirmed the presence of remains of the civilization Phoenician in the area of the Gorgoracha, what comes to close the existent hole between the locations of Almuñécar and Salobreña and those of Adra, in the county almeriense. The archaeologists specialized in this historical stage maintained the hypothesis of the presence Phoenician in the valley of the Guadalfeo and in next territories to the county of Almería, but they lacked the discovery that demonstrated it. They already have it.
The professor of Archaeology of the University of Granada, Andrés Mª Adroher Auroux, assisted the call formulated by members of the environmentalist association Buxus a couple of months ago that in its journeys for the district had met with remains of more than probable scientific interest. The archaeologist's granadino work in the last weeks has ratified what was already sensed. The Phoenicians settled near the Guadalfeo and from that point they established commercial relationships with the indigenous communities of the vega of Granada.
This thesis explains the high presence of remains of this civilization among the nearest íberos to the current capital of the county. Until this discovery, it was thought that the penetration of the influence Phoenician had taken place for other channels: through the Green river until the Bermejales - where they have been remains of ceramic cared Phoenicians - and like alternative road, for the Hole of Zafarraya. The pieces of two-handled jars and of adobe that they are disseminated by this point of the Gorgoracha they finally throw light on that that, until then, he/she only ventured.
The establishment is located in the head of the Ravine of the you Climb yourself, next to the well-known farm as 'Black Club'. they have been numerous remains of two-handled jars and, what is more important, walls that could demonstrate the existence from a similar nucleus to a city. The eminently commercial character of the town Phoenician and the mining resources of the alpujarra low grenadine credit the theory of an establishment in the Gorgoracha, endorsed by the scum existence coming from the same place where they have been the ceramic pieces.
The archaeologist that has taken the weight of the investigations qualifies of «spectacular» the discovery from the historical-scientific point of view, «that had waited largely. In the last congress of archaeology púnica and Phoenician, had taken place for two years in Cádiz, mention some was not made to the presence of these residents beyond Almuñécar or Salobreña».
Sea inside
The existence of remains Phoenicians so many kilometers sea inside are erected as an added value of the discovery, since the historiography teaches that it was a town very attached to the coast, of few incursions toward the interior - the example Almuñécar contributes it, the 'Sexi' Phoenician -. However, it has not still been determined with accuracy where he/she was the coast line 27 centuries ago. Keeping in mind that the hill that now Salobreña occupies it was then a peninsula and that the Crag went into 500 meters in the sea, some experts place the coast line, to the height of Motril, much more near the establishment that where now he/she is.
The archaeologist highlights the good conservation of the remains, but he suspects that the area has suffered expolios «because in surface there are too many materials that should have several earth meters for above». The thefts incontrolados are now the biggest concern in the investigators that neither lose of view the possible damages of the action urbanística. For an and another reason they trust in that the administrations - Meeting of Andalusia in the first place - it recognizes the one it pierces, include it in the catalog of goods and, mainly, finance investigation projects, «if not, it won't be good for anything what one has worked and the remains will get lost forever».